The Billboard 1924-03-22: Vol 36 Iss 12 (1924-03-22)

The Billboard MARCH 22, 1924 —_— ~~ Announcements of all kinds. that a child can operate it. START AN EMBOSOGRAPH SHOP. NO GLUE! Absolutely fool-proof. AS IF BY MAGIC THIS MACHINE TURNS OUT Four-Color Embossed Signs or Display Cards! (NOT PRINTED) F. O. B. NO MAKE-READY! No Skill Required—You Can Start Making Signs at Once! The Embosograph will earn $300 weekly for you The EMBOSOGRAPH turns out daily 400 Signs or Display Cards. COST YOU 2!%ec PER SIGN Makes Calendars, Price Cards and —MERCHANTS PAY FROM 50c to $1 EACH. * These Signs Are Now in Demand Everywhere. MANUFACTURERS BUY THEM IN LARGE QUANTITIES, With the EMBOSOGRAPH you can within a very short time have Agents working for you. Agents can easily make $20.00 daily. The EMBOSOGRAPH itself measures only 13x12x4 inches, is compact and easily carried. Guaranteed unconditionally. Rush Your Order Today. Be First in the Field —START TODAY!—Let this Wonder-Worker Work for You. PRICE $150.00 NEW YORK, ONE-THIRD CASH WITH ORDER—BALANCE C. 0. D. ATTRACT BIG CROWDS EVERYWHERE Your So simple BIG MONEY MAKER AT Fairs, Expositions, Penny Arcades, Vacant Windows, Etc. You Can Easily Operate the Machine in Your Home. WRITE TODAY FREE SAMPLES OF WORK ON REQUEST EMBOSOGRAPH COMPANY 18-20 West 34th St., New York City AGENTS WANTED for new importation of LUMINOUS CRUCIFIXES Made of a close imitation of Sterling Silver which cannot be detected by one thousand. Inlaid with beautiful rk wood and covered with Radium Paint, guaranteed to last at least 5 SAMPLE, $1.25. $12.00 DOZ. Cash with sample orders. falf cash with quantity orders. Retails for $3.75. wonderful money-getter for Canvassers, Sheet-Writers, etc. PARK ROW CO. PARK ROW BUILDING, NEW YORK GLASS FRONT wath Anes GROOVED BACK PRICES CAN BE edad aan Salesmen Wanted act Size, 8x15 inche Mzahorany Frame DAVENPORT-TAYLOR MFG. CO. 412 Orleans St., Chicago “1 Price $8.50 CELLULOID LETTERS CHANGED AT ONCE DOK % 7 ee > sur COLLAPSTE! Agents and Streetmen AIL ODRER HOUSES should send for cir E STEEL GARMENT HANGERS and of our new TOWEL HOI DE y t ready for market 50. ast lers and a real profit, Sample, S0c each Money refunded, if we have misled you. B. D. GAUSE MFG. DEPT., 734 S. Main, Elkhart, Ind. ular and prices of PIPES (Continued from page 123) Harrison was another successful button work er. For the past ten years he has been running one of the finest fountain-pen shops in Phila é Iphia, Jimmie Simpson and George Covel rade d up a few trunks with the buttons and bit le very successful trip with them to Simpson is now permanently lon Philadelphia, where he manufactures nt embroidery needle. Covell later made ted ** "Rou ind the World on a Collar But ton”’ trip (truth compels the writer to say however, che t altho he started this trip on buttons b finished on peelers—vegetable kn ves), Jol in M aney, the Lowenfelt Brothers (Manny and Joe), Walter Heywood, Harry l’rall and many others whose names the writer fails to rv were su -cessful button workers of those 7 ry Prall is probably the only one of the entire “bunch’’ who still hand@tes this particular item, and he still sells plenty of them. A peculiar fact about this button is that it was on the market in Germany for forty years before it was started toward fame over here by Billy Ahern. Germans used it not aS a collar button, but as a sleeve fastener. The result of the big sales here was the ontcome of a wide-awake pitchman using his cbhman’s e ye" to good advantage. “Uy p-to-date’’ pitchmen must keep “up with the styles’’ to be really successful, So soon as one line becomes passe to him he must dig up something new. Abern had seen a new collar button in the Central States that he figured might be worked to good advantage. (The writer d« ubtless refers to the patented button known as the “‘Duplex"’, invented by J. Cincinnati.—BILL). He called on w and mentioned the fact to ave some of the new lat ai immediately recovered 7 im Ke lle them tha he had in his baseh the boys of the East didn't andle—at that time Kelley, moved m Ann street and n Tw third street, near , incidentally, his financial rom the best just then Powg with Billy caused him to ever, Kelly’ remember the latter's old-time success with collar buttons, and the result was that when these two experienced button men got their heads together they figured that the same tactics ch pt “old button” over would do the trick with the new one—that ic, add a f links and make & package. tut y style “‘link’’, they found, was a snap astener—therefore @ «nap on the cuffs and 1 the collar, <A few days later Kelley le @ trip westward and made arrangements andle the new button. In lees than a year was again on “easy street’, history had ated ‘teelf and a Centra) Btates inventor, ‘ rvluct had been slow in getting started going up the ladder of anccess, and his product sold thruout the country. Also the instances show that oltchmen are world-beaters at pationally advertising new articles. a says T.. \ made Sli« ger $2: \ D.Payne, Frank DePrics over $525 profit in one day fell and Viles sold over 5,000in 2years, G. Howard “armed $100 in ome day. AF. E. Mendenhall worked half time and made $100 a \week. W. E. Findlay ran \up his commissions in a few months from $100 to over $500 per month. Every Home, Auto Owner, Store and “Fectery a Live Prospect— L. 0. Keeton, Glena Howa rd, and hundreds of our most successful men never sold Fire Extinguishers before. Our special training course starts you on road to suec cons first day If now emp to make big money during epare time. ecessary. Cict our new ke real money . 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